Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that the proposal had been accepted at a summit in Cairo & costs $53 billion, in contrast to Trump’s 'Middle East Riviera' vision.
The implications of two developments for Middle East politics are substantial – not least because of recent social and political developments in Israel and Iran.
Why should the US care? Because in the end, as its wrangle with Britain this week should have reminded them, America still needs bases, friendly ports, & overfly rights.
Multiple companies have invoked the principle of ‘force majeure’, which lets a party off the hook in case of unforeseen ‘acts of God’, to avoid penalties.
IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
The Arab nations have always been hypocrites of the first order.
For every single conflict in middle-east Asia, they have never taken in refugees and asylum seekers.
Be it Syria or Iraq or Yemen or any other nation ravaged by foreign occupation, dictatorship and civil wars, millions of civilians have never found relief and shelter in these Arab countries.
Their only option has been to migrate to Europe and US/Canada.
The Arab nations have always been hypocrites of the first order.
For every single conflict in middle-east Asia, they have never taken in refugees and asylum seekers.
Be it Syria or Iraq or Yemen or any other nation ravaged by foreign occupation, dictatorship and civil wars, millions of civilians have never found relief and shelter in these Arab countries.
Their only option has been to migrate to Europe and US/Canada.